Do I Still Need To Install Oracle Client if Using Microsoft ODBC for Oracle to connect to an Oracle Database?

Question

Using ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library as a Reference from Excel VBA, and the connection string is:

\"Driver={Microsoft ODBC for Oracle}.......\"

And I also

Answer 1

there are other ODBC drivers out there that don't use the Oracle client software. DataDirect supply one https://www.progress.com/odbc/oracle-database

TLMC